Forms 11g auto-complete date field

Hi,
In forms60 we had a few registry keys that made it possible for the end user to type in parts of a date and have it auto-completed.
Example :
The user wants to type in 20/10/2010 but merely had to type in 20<ENTER>
This worked in forms60, is there a way to achieve this in forms 11g?
Thank you
PS: I have already tried
NLS_DATE_FORMAT=DD/MM/YYYY
FORMS_OUTPUT_DATE_FORMAT=DD/MM/YYYY
FORMS_USER_DATE_FORMAT=DD/MM/YYYY
In default.env with no luck.

Dear Christian, yes I am certain.
I just investigated it a little more and it appears it all depends on the following registry keys :
HKLM\Software\Oracle\forms60_user_date_format which has value : ddmmyyyy|ddmm|dd|dd/mm/yy|ddmmyy|dd/mm|dd/mm/yyyy
HKLM\Software\Oracle\forms60_user_datetime_format which has value : ddmmyyyyhh24mi|ddmmyyyy hh24mi|dd/mm/yyyy hh24:mi|ddmm hh24mi|ddhh24mi|dd hh24mi|ddmmhh24mi|ddmmyyyyhh24mi
These appear to define in what formats a user can input a date.
The one I was talking about appears to be about the *|dd|* which would imply the user can input the day and the rest will be autocompleted.
I did find another thread about this issue, but it is for 10g and they never really found out the whys and hows...
Date field in 10g Form
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